#peacehack - building technology for peace

Why #peacehack?

What makes #peacehack special?

FILL THE GAP

#peacehack actively brings the two distinct worlds of technology and peacebuilding together for good

Value for money

#peacehack can create new products and long lasting relationships for relatively little outlay

Global reach

Using technology available across the world, what comes out of a #peacehack could be used in various contexts around the world

inclusive

Our #peacehacks welcome anyone regardless of ethnic and social background and can happen virtually anywhere

About us

What is #peacehack all about?

..brings designers, developers and practitioners together to build peace.

The aim of a #peacehack is to bring people with different skills from different background to come together and build something to address real issues preventing peace around the world. We see that by using technology we can create opportunities for people around the globe to communicate, participate and improve conditions for peace.

#peacehack is an initiative by International Alert. International Alert works with people directly affected by conflict to build lasting peace. Together, we believe peace is within our power.
We focus on solving the root causes of conflict, bringing together people from across divides. From the grassroots to policy level, we cometogether to build everyday peace.

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Events

Latest #peacehack news

We’re pleased to announce our first #peacehack of 2018! In partnership with UNDP and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we’re returning to the Hague in July to do a 1 day hack entitled “Peace connect: working better together to prevent conflict: Finding data-driven and innovative solutions to jointly and rapidly identify and respond to[…]

December was a busy month for #peacehack as two took place in different continents. For the first hack, we returned to the Build Peace Conference, which took place at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia where over 30 developers, designers and peacebuilders came together to examine the theme of “Citizen Participation in Peace Agreements”, and[…]

We’re pleased to announce that applications are now open for our next #peacehack, as part of the Build Peace Conference 2017. This years’ conference takes place in Bogota, Colombia and is based on the theme of “Making Paper Count: New Forms of Citizen Participation in Peace Agreements” We’re inviting developers and designers in the Colombia[…]

Last weekend, we built a flock of twitterbots at two #peacehacks in London and Brierfield to spread messages of peace on Twitter for International Peace Week. The latest hackathon joined a campaign from Build Up and International Alert to build #robotsforpeace to reach as many people as possible and get #peaceday trending on Twitter. Tech[…]

#peacehack returns as a key event in the Talking Peace Festival, and this year we’re going to do something a little different. We’re inviting you (as coders, developers, designers or just someone who’d like to get involved) to sign up to our #peacehack and build a bot to send messages of peace. Bots have been[…]

This article originally appeared on the Build Up blog, July 2017, and the initial ideation and prototyping took place at our #peacehackZRH event in September 2016. In the last year, Build Up, funded by Interpeace and PeaceNexus, ran a pilot program of the Build Peace Fellowship, focused on mentoring peacebuilders through strategically embedding a tech tool in their process.[…]

“Hack the Camp” Winners Present their Innovative Solutions to Refugee Challenges. Teams “RefuGR” (Refugees in Greece مهاجرین دریونان), Refergon and Taproot Design present their projects on Thursday, June 1st 2017 at 7:00pm at an invitation-only event for hackathon participants, mentors, press and select guests in Impact Hub Athens. During the five months that followed the[…]

This article first appeared on SciDev.Net May 2017 Mapping project shows the most effective peace tech is driven by young people themselves, says Harriet Lamb. “Here we have drug problems, we have terrorism, but we want young people to change their minds — and to change people’s lives.” This is what an enthusiastic young student[…]

Taproot Members Dimitris Morakis (Industrial Designer) and Voula Germanakou Kopsini (Filmmaker) together with Eirini Gkeli (Industrial Designer) teamed up during the the Hackathon on refugees and Integration Challenges #HackTheCamp, that took place in Impact Hub Athens on December 2016, winning the 3rd prize with our mobile water supply unit (WALY). Our goal was to create[…]

We’re pleased to announce our first #peacehack of 2017. The Conflict Resolution Working Group (part of the School of International Public Affairs) at Columbia University will be holding a #peacehack on March 26th 2017 whose objective is to contribute to the field of conflict resolution and peacebuilding using new technologies/media and data analysis. The #peacehack[…]

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OUR TEAM

Dedicated to making a difference using technology, our team brings in diverse experience

Dan Marsh

Head of IT at The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), Chief Chirpa and #peacehack co-founder

Dan lives and breaths technology and peacebuilding. He’ll speak about anything from #peacehacks to big data. He brings with him 20 years of experience of infrastructure for UK charities as well as providing expertise through talks and blogs.

ANDY KYRIAKIDES

Manager, AOP and #peacehack co-founder

Andy is the “Hands-on” member of the team, dealing with logistics and bringing it all together. He also builds websites (like this one). After 10 years in education, he’s spent the next 10 advocating for technology in all aspects of life, as well as passionately supporting Sutton United F.C.

HELENA PUIG Larrauri

Co-Director, Build Up and #peacehack advocate

Peacebuilding practitioner, focusing on innovation design and technology-enabled programs to promote peace, support civic engagement and prevent conflict. She has worked on projects with non-governmental and United Nations agencies in conflict and post-conflict environments.

catherine Dempsey

Business development and partnerships

Catherine provides support and advice in getting partners on board and involved with #peacehack.

Jo Robinson

Technology and Peacebuilding Advisor

Jo provides us with in-depth peacebuilding expertise, especially social accountability. Her experience includes the Overseas Development Institute and the Centre for Armed Violence Reduction, as well as working across programmes at International Alert.

Ayan Kishore

Senior Associate, Technology for Development, Technology entrepreneur

Ayan works across divisions in appropriately and innovatively using technology and is passionate about hacks and e-learning.

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#peacehack is an initiative by International Alert

International Alert works with people directly Together, we believe peace is within our power.

We focus on solving the root causes of conflict, bringing together people from across divides. From the grassroots to policy level, we come together to build everyday peace.